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Ansari, Murtada

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Ansari, Murtada

(d.
1864
)

First scholar universally recognized as supreme authority (marja
al-taqlid) in matters of Shii law. Proclaimed that the clergy were
vested with a modicum of the Hidden Imam's authority, privileging
them to serve as guardians of the infirm, the needy, widows, and orphans and to
supervise religious expenditures. Developed a notion of “rule of the
jurist,” later converted by
Ayatollah
Ruhollah
Khomeini
into political ideology.